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(NoModeL) R. O. MORSEQ Platform Wagon.

No. 230,563. Patented July 27,1880.

" F .1 N t MENTOR 'ITESSES v da I z k fl/ Z7 ATTORNEY N. PETERS. PNQTO-IJTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL O. MORSE, OF RAOINE, WISOON SIN, ASSIGNOR TO RAGINE WAGON AND CARRIAGE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLATFO RM-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,563, dated July 27, 1880.

Applioationfiled April 13, 1880. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROSWELL O. MORSE, of

Racine, in the county of Racine, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to platform-wagons of that class in which the body has a pivotal or hinged connection with the front gear; andit consists in placing the hinges between the cross-bars on the upper member of the fifthwheel and the wagon-body, as will hereinafter be fully described.

' In the drawings, Figure l is a front view of my invention, and Fig. 2 a top view with the wooden portion above B removed.

Heretofore the pivotal connection of the body to the running-gear has either been directly to the fifth-wheel or beneath it in platform-wagons. Such have been complicated and expensive; and the object of my invein tion is to make a substitute which is simpler and cheaper, as well as strong and durable. A is the upper member of the fifth-wheel, to which I bolt cross-bars B B. and to these bars I attach lugs 12, perforated to receive pivotbolts 11.

Plates B, attached to the wagon-body A, 0 have ears N, that dependover the lugs 11, to receive pivot-bolts b and form hinge-joints with the lugs.

I am aware that the bodies of platformwagons have before been connected to their gearing by hinges or pivots situated on the 5 gearing or below the fifth-wheel, and such I do not claim.

' I am aware, as hereinbefore stated, that the bodies of platform-wagons have been attached to their fifth-wheels by a rocking. connection, 0 4

and do not claim such, broadly; and I am aware that the upper member of a fifth-Wheel has been provided with lugs projecting up from it to receive or pass between ears projecting down from a plate on the body; but 5 this involves a special construction of the upper member of the fifth-wheel, while in mine no change whatever is made in any of the parts, but the hinges are merely placed between the devices in ordinary use.

I therefore claim- In combination with the bars B, bolted to the upper member of the fifth-wheel and having lugs b b, the plates B, having ears b and suitable pivot-bolts, as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

ROSWELL o. MORSE.

Witnesses:

A. 0. FIsH, JOHN DIOKSON. 

